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NBC News is publishing the names of over 1,800 unclaimed individuals sent to the University of North Texas Health Science Center to help families find answers.
Honey, who died in September 2022, is one of about 2,350 people whose unclaimed bodies have been given to the Fort Worth-based University of North Texas Health Science Center since 2019 under ...
The University of North Texas Health and Science Center stopped using unclaimed bodies following NBC News' reporting. The Funeral Commission’s discovery raises new ethical and legal questions ...
A 10-month NBC News investigation laid out in stark detail how two of the country’s most populous counties sent unclaimed bodies to a Texas medical school, which used them for medical training ...
The bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a metal drum near a burned down store in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire in 1985, while McWaters' body was found nearby in 2000 together with a still-unidentified body of a little girl, whose DNA analysis showed that she was the daughter of Rasmussen. The identity of the ...
While using unclaimed bodies for this purpose remains legal in much of the country, including Texas, it’s widely viewed as unethical because of the absence of consent and the pain it can inflict ...
In November 2007, Harris County approved a bond for the construction of a new, state-of-the-art building for the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office to be located at 1861 Old Spanish Trail in the Texas Medical Center. The Harris County Medical Examiner's Office was renamed the Harris County Institute of Forensic Sciences in 2010 to reflect ...
Texas state law requires record retention for two to five years. [ 1 ] Following media investigation of the department's e-mails, Houston Ministers Against Crime said Sheriff Tommy Thomas should step down after a cartoon about the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson was found in his e-mails. [ 2 ]